The Tomb (2009 film)

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The Tomb
Film poster
Directed by	Michael Staininger
Written by	Jeff Most
Based on	"Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced by	Donald P. Borchers Jeff Most
Starring	Wes Bentley Sofya Skya Kaitlin Doubleday Michael Madsen Eric Roberts
Cinematography	Jamie Thompson
Edited by	Danny Saphire
Music by	Patrick Cassidy
Production companies	Most Films Saphire-Borchers Aberto Entertainment
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release date	November 13, 2009 (2009-11-13) (St. Louis)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Tomb, also known as Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia, is a 2009 horror film directed by Michael Staininger and starring Wes Bentley, Sofya Skya, Kaitlin Doubleday, Michael Madsen, and Eric Roberts. It is based on the short story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe.^[1]

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Jonathan Merrick, a best-seller author, falls in love with a fascinating girl named Ligeia. But she keeps a deadly secret, she is ill and she needs to steal souls to survive. In her quest for immortality she will do anything to keep death away. Jonathan, haunted by her beauty, breaks up with his girlfriend Rowena. Ligeia and Merrick take a house on the shores of the Black Sea and he enters into a dark and hopeless world.^[2]

Cast[edit]

Wes Bentley as Jonathan Merrick
Sofya Skya as Ligeia
Kaitlin Doubleday as Rowena
Mackenzie Rosman as Lorelei
Christa Campbell as Mrs. Burris
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Mr. Burris
Eric Roberts as Vaslov
Michael Madsen as George
Lydia Hull as The Bartender

Release[edit]

The film premiered at the 2009 St. Louis International Film Festival.^[3]

References[edit]

^ profilbaru.com. "The Tomb (2009 film) - Profilbaru.Com". profilbaru.com. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
^ The Tomb (2009) - IMDb, retrieved 2023-05-02
^ https://cinemastlouis.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/SLIFF_program_2009.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links[edit]

The Tomb at IMDb

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